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Affordable Housing
For 13 years I asked the landlord to fix the ceiling. Then it rained inside my kitchen (video)

… in my kitchen The walls and ceiling were spewing rainwater like some kind of experimental art piece that … live in a quaintlooking 14unit tenement in Williamsburg run by an LLC spun off from a large and powerful real estate … of my time and if I did not have the option to work from home there is no way I could handle the logistics of trying …

By Anonymous |November 14, 2023 - 1:00PM
A ceiling collapsing in a bathroom.
Troubleshooting
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Products + Services
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Small Projects + DIY
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Renovation
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Design + Architecture
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Renovation
My NYC apartment has a concrete ceiling. How do I install overhead lighting?
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Buy
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By Austin Havens-Bowen |March 13, 2020 - 9:00AM
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Live
Dear Ms. Demeanor: My bathroom ceiling collapsed three times from flooding caused by my upstairs neighbor. What should I do?
By Dianne Ackerman |February 28, 2020 - 1:00PM